Word: clamored
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Heeding the public clamor for cleaner government, the House gave final approval to a sweeping reform bill on lobbying and sent it to the President, who has said he will sign it. The legislation imposes strict registration rules on lobbyists, requiring them to disclose their clients, the issues they have worked on and the money they have been paid...
Despite increasing public clamor, the right-to-die-with-dignity movement has yet to make a practical difference in the way Americans are dying. A major and disturbing study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that the desires of terminally ill patients who want to forgo heroic life-prolonging treatment are being routinely frustrated because their wishes are misunderstood by doctors (at best) or ignored (at worst...
...attempt to publicly discredit Wei by depicting him, to the local and international audience, as a despicable criminal, to counter his image of a pro-democracy crusader and prisoner of conscience. Despite the ebbing of public support for China's pro-democracy movement overseas, there has been a constant clamor, especially in the West, for the release of dissidents like...
...panels had found men--one of them black--guilty of murder. Moran does not take kindly to the criticism that her sixth jury was predisposed to acquitting a black man. "If we had come back with a guilty verdict in two hours, would you be seeing all of this clamor?" she asks. "I doubt...
...years there will be a new technology for extraction, and then, if we still need oil and gas, future generations can decide whether to review the reserve's status." This is a perspective that Yakutia's arctic neighbors in Alaska might consider, as oil and gas interests clamor to open the great Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling...